Pepper Hamilton is sponsoring the 2016 ASNE-APME News Leadership Conference being held Sept. 11-14 in downtown Philadelphia. The conference will include:
- keynotes by leading-edge thinkers and influences, including Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, who will speak about the transformational changes he has led in the newsroom
- panels and workshops on practices and tools to improve coverage and engagement, including workshop by The City University of New York's CUNY Graduate School of Journalism to teach editors how to develop community-driven news products
- award-winning journalists talking about their work
- APME Innovator of the Year presentations
- free tools for newsrooms
- one-on-one leadership coaching by Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair of Leadership and Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago, and Butch Ward, senior faculty at Poynter.
- silent and live auctions offering one-of-a-kind items, such as sports tickets, vacation retreats, jewelry, autographed books and much more.